Marion Cotillard
Cotillard in 2014, photo by Prphotos
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Date of Birth: 30 September, 1975
Ethnicity: Breton, French, one eighth German
Marion Cotillard is a French actress, singer, songwriter, musician, and environmentalist. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for La Vie en Rose (2007). She is also famous for her roles in the films My Sex Life… or How I Got Into an Argument, Taxi, Furia, Pretty Things, Big Fish, the musical Nine, Inception, and The Dark Knight Rises. She is a Greenpeace spokesperson.
Marion is the daughter of Niseema Theillaud (born Monique Theillaud), an actress and drama teacher, and Jean-Claude Cotillard, an actor, teacher, director, and mime. She has two children with her partner, actor Guillaume Canet.
Her father’s family is Breton, an ethnic group found in the region of Brittany, in France. Her mother’s family is French.
Marion’s mother has been described as having Kabyle, a Berber ethnic group from Algeria, ancestry. This is not accurate.
Marion’s paternal grandfather was Edouard Jean Cotillard (the son of Toussaint Cotillard and Jeanne Marie Allenic). Edouard was from La Musse, Laurenan, Cotes-d’Armor, Brittany. Toussaint was the son of Paul Cotillard and Anne Marie Le Loup. Marion’s great-grandmother Jeanne was the daughter of Mathurin Allenic and Perrine Marguerite Huguet.
Marion’s paternal grandmother was Léontine Marie-Louise Raulet (the daughter of Jean François Raulet and Marie Joseph Pencolé). Léontine was from Chaubuisson, Laurenan, Cotes-d’Armor, Brittany. Jean François was the son of Mathurin Raulet and Marie Françoise Caillibote. Marion’s great-grandmother Marie Joseph was the daughter of Joseph Pencolé and Jeanne Nicolas.
Marion’s maternal grandfather was Raymond Georges Albert Theillaud (the son of Jules Xavier Theillaud and Eugénie Madeleine Bandel). Raymond was born in Paris. Jules was the son of François Theillaud and Catherine Moreau. Eugénie was of German descent, and was the daughter of Pierre Maurice Bandel and Anne Marie Kaufmann.
Marion’s maternal grandmother was Simone Fournier (the daughter of Georges Auguste Fournier and Léonie Augustine Tellier). Georges was the son of Isidore Alexandre Fournier and Sophie Léonie Paris. Marion’s great-grandmother Léonie was the daughter of Henri Tellier and Charlotte Rousselot.
Sources: https://www.huffingtonpost.fr
Genealogy of Marion Cotillard – https://www.geni.com
oh wait the comment above this is mine! I forgot my name oops:)
Drexx France must be the land of the buetiful then lol:)
I wish i could see what you look like :D (haha i know that prolly sounds creepy but its not i swear:)
And paul i hate you, your so lucky!!:P
and the weather in East coast America is suprisingly buetiful! like 60 degrees today,so 16 celsius? lmao i dont remember how to do Celsius:)
I LOVE Paris!
It’s just so… :D
I feel so at home there. (:
Sure, the weather isn’t all that great, but I’m from Ireland, so any bit of sunshine is most welcome. ;]
loool In paris the weather is completely horrible (except in summer, but sometimes even in summer it’s raining :( )!!!! I think that’s the reason why parisian people are always in bad mood loool
Hey Kira, my mom is French! =D
And, she was born in the south of France.. Cannes. But she has natural light blonde hair, pale skin and blue eyes. She has Swedish, distant Norwegian, German, Swiss-German and N. Italian blood, along with the French, but she still ‘looks’ French, if you get me.
In Cannes, I see a lot of tanned people, but my French grandmother is from Brittany and my grandfather is from Paris, so that’s probably why she isn’t that tanned. :/
Brittany has a lot of blondes, from what my grandmother told me.
I guess I’ll find out soon enough, as I’m going there in July. =]